That’s what Tim Jackson defend in his book Prosperity Without Growth reviewed by George Monbiot.

However, despite this books looking interesting, I have remarks on one part of that review of Monbiot, the following precisely : « During the second half of the growth frenzy, unemployment rose, inequality rose, social mobility declined, the poor lost amenities (such as housing) »

This seriously should be sourced (and I’m disappointed to see Montbiot out of anybody starting doing such unsubstantiated wild statements).
What time period does that refer to ? Most of this has frequently been denounced despite being completely false (like the old lore that education level of children is lowering, which the romans were already saying).
If true at all, then only for a short period.
Maybe it’s truer for unemployment, but then also an unemployed today has a higher living standard than working class people in the 50’s. We leave in an economy that’s able to offer you a job only if your efficiency is over a level that puts many out of a job. However it also is able to compensate those people, and give them a living standard higher than what the norm for workers was a few dozen years earlier.

Finally I realize than this may hold some truth when you see the economic situation of the recent years in England, but mostly not in France, and this shows that it has then happened only as the result of some specific political choice, not as a inescapable result of our economic system.